The opener was definitely readable and worth continuing and I finished the book with a big smile on my face!

pasirodė veikėjai aplink ją, nors ir čia be galo daug klišių – šeimas sukūrusios, bet visos savaip nelaimingos draugės, geriausia draugė, kurią nori pasiglemžti kita draugė, atitolę jų vyrai. Norėjosi kitokios perspektyvos, šviežio žvilgsnio ar požiūrio taško, ypač turint omeny, kad knyga parašyta vos prieš tris metus, o pasaulis taip greitai keičiasi. She made the book a real joy to listen to and she has definitely been added to on my favorite narrators list! I had not heard of this author, and it was a 'stumble across' as I browsed an interstate catalogue (the perks of working in a library, and knowing where to look for the location of a book, Australia wide).

Neviem či by som rovno povedala, že má jedinecný zmysel pre humor či sebairóniu, ale tak uznávam, že 4 roky v Británii ma poznačili a tak je to asi skreslené. I loved her friendships with Cricket, Fiona and Arthur and I got so caught up in her life that I was telling my husband about her antics as if she was a real person.

But when it became about women everywhere (we are all f*ck ups, we’re all in this together), I felt disappointed.Or maybe, ‘you have to read this book’ when their childless friends to try to talk to them about their struggles.

Confessions of a Forty-Something F**k Up by Alexandra Potter will make you laugh, and it might even make you cry. Edward stays in the city during the week and leaves for the weekend to stay with his family and Nell figures the 3 days of freedom make up for the never ending furnace, electricity and toilet paper roll wars. Worse still, all Nell’s friends seem to have moved on and settled down into marriage and motherhood.I really enjoyed this format and I think it worked well to situate the reader in the unfolding story.

A novel for any woman who wonders how the hell she got here, and why life isn't quite how she imagined it was going to be. I actually read the first look of this over on Readers First and thought it was such an uplifting and fun book; and I felt that way for perhaps the first half, but then i just began to feel very cliche and the ending was just really disappointing for me. Savā ziņā šī grāmata ir kā slavenā Amerikas Fereras tēla runa no filmas " Bārbija" par to, kādas ir sabiedrības (un tevis pašas) ekspektācijas un cik reizēm sāpīgi ir tām neatbilst.Nell lands up writing obituaries, she meets Cricket an 80 year old widow and they soon make friends and become close.